Brand New!! Derwent Fine Art Prize 2014 - 2 People's Alternative Awards

The Derwent Art Prize offers 2 opportunities for earth to vote for the People's Choice Award inwards relation to the artwork selected for exhibition in addition to - this twelvemonth for the outset fourth dimension - all entries every bit well.  More most how to vote below.

Yesterday the Derwent Art Prize website published 2 galleries of images

• People's Choice Award 2014 - all works entered inwards the contest - all 25 pages of them which, amongst a 100 entries on each page, agency they had most 2,500 entries!
• People's Choice Award - The Exhibition 2014 - All Works  There are 79 pencil artworks inwards total

Why non pretend to live on a selector in addition to accept a await at all of them in addition to and encounter what you lot squall back of both the pencil artworks which were entered in addition to the plant that were selected.

Would you lot get got chosen a unlike fix of c.80 plant for the exhibition?  Which plant would you lot get got selected?

Each of the plant too render buttons which enable you lot to:

• post to your facebook account
• tweet an image
• post an icon on your Google+ account.

Selected artists

I'll live on commenting farther on the selected artists inwards a futurity post.

Some of the selected artworks inwards the Exhibition for the Derwent Art Prize 2014

Prizes

The prizes separate inwards two. The outset fix are those determined past times the judges.  These are

• First Prize -  £6,000
• Second Prize -  £3,500
• Third Prize -  £1,000
• Young Artist Award for artists nether 25 years - £500
• UK Coloured Pencil Society Award for Excellence - £250

Then there's the TWO People Choices Awards which are chosen past times earth this year.  As a evolution from terminal year, the contest organisers get got made all the entries available for alternative for this prize.

Thus nosotros straightaway have:

• People’s Choice Award of £700 - from plant selected for the exhibition and judged past times visitors to the exhibition in addition to visitors to the website.
• People’s Choice Award of £700 - selected from all 2014 entries in addition to judged past times visitors to the website

I'm wondering if the 80th house inwards the exhibition mightiness live on for the People's Choice Award every bit judged past times visitors to the website.

I'm too wondering what precautions get got been position inwards house to preclude unfair interference amongst the voting.

The panel of judges for the principal prizes are:

• Kate Macfarlane, Co-Founder in addition to Co-Director of the Drawing Room, 
• Josh Spero, Editor of Spears Magazine in addition to Art Critic for Tatler UK, and 
• Professor Anita Taylor, artist, Co-Founder in addition to Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize in addition to Dean of Bath School of Art in addition to Design.

How to vote for the People's Choice Award

You tin hand the axe vote for TWO People's Choice awards.

It's non terribly obvious how you lot tin hand the axe vote for the People's Choice abide by - until you lot click on an icon in addition to realise that they each get got a large greenish "Vote for this icon inwards the People's Choice Award" button.

You've got a lot of images to review in addition to thus brand certain you lot don't click on the outset icon that you lot like!

The Derwent Art Prize Exhibition

The pencil artworks selected for exhibition volition live on seen inwards London in addition to Cumbria. They'll live on seen outset at the Mall Galleries inwards London betwixt the 15th – 20th September 2014. The minute exhibition volition live on at The Pencil Museum inwards Keswick, Cumbria inwards Dec 2014.

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